The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-02

from profaning the sanctuary CT any
faith. Besides his passions are under
the check of reason. It is the facile un.
belief OF the ignorant and unthinking
which Is most dangerous to religion and to
the public welfare. The tendency of edu-
cation, on the other hand, is favorable to
belief in religious truth as a part of
great system Of truth with which culture
makes a man acquainted in its many re-
latlons. Education is the natural ally of
truth, as ignorance is it's natural enemy.
1t is significant fact that it is not
certain number of young men that we
send out into the world at our Commence
ment, but young women and young men
This Is circumstance not to be greeted
with flourish of sentiment, but fitted to
be the subject Of earnest and thoughtful
congratulation. 1t was happy augury
for the fortunes Of Buchtel College that
| at its foundation, it took woman into its
confidence and hopored her. For il is
law of the economy of human life, that
woman Is destined to be blessing or
curse according as she is regarded and
treated by man. Nature has made these
two one, and whoever attempts to sepa.
rate their fortunes will have to reckon
with her memorable powers. IL man
scorns and degrades her, she will drag
him down to the level of her degradation.
Thus, while her heart breaks, she be-
comes her own unwilling and unwilling
avenger. Ii man honors and exalts her,
she will uplift him to the height which
she attains. This is the lesson of history.
This is the law of the solidarity of the sexes
Together in harmony to the heights, or
separated in mutual distrust and dis
cord, along the lower planes of life lies
their course. By his superior force man
may outstrip woman and scornfully shut
her out of his intellectual life But in
the revenge of nature she will become to
him unconsc;ously weight and impedi-
ment, SO that in the end he will not by
much have advanced SO far as if he had
taken her into his confidence in the be-
ginning, and the two had advanced with
equal pace, rejoicing in and strengthen
ing one another. In his sentimental
moods man has regarded woman as su-
perior being and has worshiped her. In
his brutal moods he has made her his
slave. In both he has been wrong.
Made of such clay as he is made of she
is born neither to be enthroned by him
nor to be trodden under his feet. To
walk by his side, to share in his inteIlec-
tual pursuits and his spiritual aspira tions,
to rejoice in his confidence, to drink at
the same fountain of knowledge and wor-
ship at the same affairs with him-for all
this is she formed, and to nothing greater
does she aspire.
The question of the education of wo-
men has become problem of civiliza-
ton. That she has right to an educa-
ton Is no more open to dispute than that
she has right to the use of her five
senses. That she is capable of the high
est culture ana the severest discipline,
and of rendering vast service to the world
in science, in literature and on the plat
form has been Aany times proved by
brilliant examples.
In the study of woman history has
shown that she is so important factor
in the development of the race that her
education cannot safely be neglected or
left to the doubtful chances of her own
struggles to secure it. 1t has become ev-
ident that it is serious question for the
statesman and the philanthropist In
regard to woman's education, the man
ner OF it is of no slight Importance. Let
us at once abandon the notion that it is
constituted of accomplishments in en-
broidery, music and painting. An edu-
cation for woman is nothing more nor
less than an education for man. The
idea that she is not capable of the same
training and discipline, both in breadth
and depth of which man is capable,
has been thousand times proved unten-
able. That there is difference between
the two in quality of mind and in point of
view, is probably true. Hence the results
OF education will not be the same in both.
in the order of nature the one supple
ments the other, and the two produce q
beautiful and divine harmony.
| Whether women should be educated
in the same schools with men or separ-
ately, Is question still held open by
many. Without entering here into an
elaborate discussion of the matter, 1 will
only say that co-education is the only
natural method. In the order of nature,
men and women are intended to associate
with each other. They do so associate in
the home, in the church, in society and
in the public schools. Whenever they
are separated the law of nature is violat-
ed, and never with impunity. To separ-
ate young men and women in the for
NATIVE period of their lives, that is,
while they are pursuing an education, is,
to say the least, in the highest degree
unnatural. Young men congregated to-
gether in college have fatal tendency
to brutality. Young women shut up to-
I gether in boarding schools, develop an
unhealthy sentimentality and feeble
growth, for want of the stimulus OF con-
tact with the intellect and modes of
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